Assignment #3

For my last assignment, like I've been talking about, I want to do something more creative. So I think I would like to write a short story/creative essay about what happened to ASD people after they leave high school. I think I'd like to write about three examples that I know about: 1) Dan - mildly MR, ~age 25, works as a janitor and lives with his mother; 2) Jamie - severely disabled, ASD, age 17, unable to work, lives with his mother; 3) an example from a group home/insitution (I don't know anyone personally); 4) Ariel and Christine - twins, both severly disabled, ASD, given up by parents, live with foster parents, ~age 6. Basically I want to write about something people don't normally think about--the fact that some of these people can't take care of themselves and are a huge burden to their parents and to society, really. I don't have a solution, but I really feel like people don't realize how big a problem this is.